I am sorry if this is a bit boring to start with but please bear with.
When I worked I had a manager who everyone hated as he had no sense of compassion understanding or sympathy for any one, and people said that when he was born God took his heart and gave him a lump of concrete and how he had risien to managerial position was crazy. I used to hold weekly meeting whereby all section managers would give a 5 minute talk every Friday on any problems they had and all sickness/absenteeism for the week, This person always ended those off with sickness with horrible rude quips such as "Oh he/she was okay yesterday" or "if you need to take time off to look after your kids you should not have them in the first place". I got sick to the back teeth of this and told him to keep his thought to himself and if I heard another vitrolic remark I would report him to HR, so that ended what little friendship we had.
Last night I had a really bad nightmare and it happened like this. 01:30am the phone was ringing so I answered it and it was the DWP to tell me that my assessment was at 07:00am that morning and they would send a taxi for me. I got up and showered and the taxi arrived driven by a freaky scary old man in a hearse and he took me to a really run down old hospital that looked really scary and he told me to "get out" and to go to the reception where I was met by an old lady who looked about 150 and she then told me to go to room 1003. I walked down this long dark dank corridor that had many rooms leading off and inside each room was a load of people some in wheelchairs and on crutches and all of them were crying and sobbing loudly. I arrived at room 1003 and waited for about 10 minutes and then the door opened and the assessor walked out and it was the horrible manager that used to work for me with a huge grin on his face. I was then awoken by a big bang outside of my house and woke up in a sweat. I have my assessment and it is imminent so I guess that must be playing on my mind I just hope the dream does not ring true !
Have a great weekend folks and don't have nightmares !!
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Sounds like my first assessment but I think the fairy of compassion as touched a few of there hearts as my last one was so different I didn't feel like the thumb screws we're on me you will cope with it stood on your head after you've had a boss like that.
That is an absolute horror story of a nightmare. Hope you actually have an assessor with a heart. I have to decide whether to apply for PIP as I have had the dreaded letter. Trouble is I haven't seen a doctor in a year and as my electro acupuncture has stopped because of retirement and my new GP has never seen me no hope of supporting letter from anywhere. I have made appt for Thurs strangely enough before I had letter as my pain is so extreme but they only had the one 10 minute slot so what I can explain in that time I don't kniw. Doesn't the mind do strange things. Good luck with assessment.x
I am sorry you are in so much pain. I know that you already know all of this stuff and advise everyone so brilliantly on here, so please don't be cross with me!
If I were you I would write down everything you want to speak to your GP about. I'd then bullet point each issue (I know tough). I'd then rate your pain using the 1-10 method. Doctors seem to 'understand' pain better this way.
Take your notes in with you. You could even ask your doctor to read them and then discuss them with him/her.
We are all behind you and will help you. You've helped countless friends on the forum and I know they will all be very happy to return the favour.
BlueMermaid3 Thanks for the kind words Lu. Wish I could have got a double appt but this doctor is very popular so lucky just to get the 10 minute slot. At the moment I think I need more help with the pain and blow PIP as it is sending me screwy. Hoping that that acupuncturist who does seem to be up to date on fibro can fit me in on Thurs afternoon but it sure feels a long way away. Onwards and upwards as they say, onwards and upwards only the engine is stalled at the moment.x
Thanks Ken feel quite a bit more pain free today, Murphy's law as I have booked a HO's appt for Wed and a private acupuncturist on Thurs as I was so desperate.x
Hopefully, when I had 8 sessions on the NHS did nothing in fact I felt worse with the pain but nice and relaxing and a !ovely acupuncturist. This man sounds very nice and to have spent half an hour talking to me on the phone for free I thought was excellent.x
Oh my goodness how terrible!! I don't like to dream as I've stated on here before! ! I wish you a dream less but sleep filled night!! Have a good day.Peck ☺
That's a bad dream alright. Clearly it is on your mind and you are dreading it. So it sounds like your subconscious mind is thinking of how bad it could possible be.
I'm suprised it wasn't room 101 in a dream like that. I sincerely hope the real interview is nothing like as bad.
Wow, that sounds a very scary and detailed nightmare. Just wanted to let you know I had a very decent assessor, who knew and understood fibro and chronic pain. She was very polite, and apologised for the length of time it took,2 hours, as she could see I was getting exhausted and finding great it hard to sit for that amount of time. Here's hoping you get the same treatment.
I am so genuinely sorry to read that my friend and it sounds like a nightmare and a half! I think you have probably hit it on the head with your assessment coming up and the stress of it is playing on your mind. I want to sincerely wish you all the best of luck my friend and please take care of yourself.
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